Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks